African futures : essays on crisis, emergence, and possibility
edited by Brian Goldstone and Juan Obarrio
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola-but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, drat future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN(s): | 9780226402383 : paperback |
| General note: | Most contributions derive from an invited session on "African Futures in Crisis", held at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans in 2010. |
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| Summary: | Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola-but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, drat future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? Looking at Africa's future as it is embedded within various emergent materialities on the continent today, these expert contributors offer a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world. |
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